Student Court at Baylor U. Withdraws ‘No-Contact’ Order on Student Newspaper

By: Mark Keierleber | SPLC

TEXAS — Hours after the student activities department at Baylor University released a statement affirming the institution’s student court did not have the authority to issue “no-contact orders” to students not involved in current proceedings, the judicial board nullified an order it issued to the student newspaper last week.

“It was kind of an affirmation of what we already knew,” said Linda Wilkins, editor in chief of The Baylor Lariat, who received the nullified order Tuesday evening. “It was just kind of ‘OK, the student court understands too where we’re coming from.